Contents:
- Medical Video: How To Draw A Crowd From Nowhere
- How can hair turn white?
- Various myths and facts about gray hair
- Having gray hair means you are old
- When you pull out one gray hair, a lot of other gray hair will grow
- Uban is stronger than black hair
- Lack of B vitamins can increase gray hair growth
- You can restore the gray color to black again without being painted
- Smoking can accelerate the appearance of gray hair
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Have you started growing gray hair in your hair? Have you ever been asked by your father to remove the gray hair which is multiplied by tweezers? Some people believe that pulling gray hair will actually make it multiply. Is this true? Then is it true that you will only get gray when you are old? See the explanation below.
How can hair turn white?
Hair grows on a scalp structure called follicles. There are an average of 100,000 to 150,000 follicles on one human scalp.
Our hair is basically white. Colors that have hair, obtained because of the presence of melanin, a pigment that also gives color to the skin. Melanin consists of 2 types of dark melanin (eumelanin) and bright melanin (phaeomelanin).
Melanin is made in a pigment cell called melanosites. In the process of forming hair, melanosites play a role in injecting melanin in cells containing keratin (a protein that plays a role in the formation of nails, hair and human skin). Uban is formed due to lack of melanin, as the color giver. Thus, several factors that cause the darkness and brightness of a person's hair include genetic, hormone, age,climate, pollution, and exposure to chemicals.
Various myths and facts about gray hair
Having gray hair means you are old
Not entirely true. Uban is formed because your hair lacks melanin, the pigment that gives color to your hair. Melanin contained in each person's hair is different. That is why, there are some people who have gray hair even though they are still 25 years old, while others have not had gray hair even at the age of 50 years.
When you pull out one gray hair, a lot of other gray hair will grow
Wrong. A doctor revealed that only one strand of hair will grow from one follicle, and the hair around gray hair will not be affected by whiteness, considering gray hair arises because the pigments in the follicle are dead. So, if you pull out one gray hair, the new gray hair will still grow later, because the pigment cells no longer produce pigments to grow black hair. But calm, which grows remains only one, not multiple.
Care should also be taken in removing hair. This is because pulling hair can traumatize the hair, and repeated trauma can cause infection, injury, and potentially baldness.
Uban is stronger than black hair
Not entirely true. Still can not be known with certainty whether the diameter of gray hair is thicker or thinner than black hair. However, some literature explains that, the light in gray is indeed able to make it look thicker.
Lack of B vitamins can increase gray hair growth
Right. The presence of gray hair in the hair of a person aged 35 years is largely due to the lack of vitamin B5 content in the person's body.
You can restore the gray color to black again without being painted
Wrong. There are no studies that support this assumption. Once the hair changes color because the pigment dies, then forever the color will remain like that.
Smoking can accelerate the appearance of gray hair
Right. There are several studies that have been able to reveal that acute active smokers appear faster than passive smokers.
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